CXXX11 PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
Lady Millais, Bowerwell; Captain Drummond Hay of Seggieden; 
Francis Gray, M.A., Sharp’s Institution; and James Bissland, Public 
Baths, were elected Ordinary Members. 
John M. Keir, i Keir Villas, Bridgend, was, on the recommend¬ 
ation of the Council, elected an Associate Member. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “Economic Entomology.” By R. Stewart M'Dougall, M.A., 
B.Sc., Edinburgh. Illustrated by a series of Lantern Slides. 
2. “ On a Banded Hornblende Schist at Balhoulan Quarry, 
Pitlochry.” By Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., and P. Macnair. (See 
Trans ., Vol., II. Part V., p. 154.) 
nth February, 1897. 
(Jointly with the Photographic Section). 
Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., President, in the Chair. 
The following donations were intimated :— 
Musewn—Perthshire Collection. —Golden-crested Wren—from Mr. 
W. White. Index Collection. —Cormorant—from Mr. Robert Gloag. 
Library ,—44 Volumes of “ Reports of the Challenger Expedition” 
—from Her Majesty’s Government. Seven volumes of the “ Geo¬ 
graphical Magazine”—from Rev. Canon Farquhar. 
A series of Photographs, taken by members of the Photographic 
Section, was exhibited. 
Miss Barbara M‘Donald, Castleview, Glasgow Road, was elected 
an Ordinary Member. 
David M‘Donald, 5 Balhousie Buildings, was, on the recommend¬ 
ation of the Council, elected an Associate Member. 
The Rev.’ H. Armstrong Hall read the following Note on a 
“ Pre-historic Cist found at Letham Quarry, near Perth” :— 
On Thursday, 4th February, a stone Cist was discovered at 
Letham Quarry. The structure was only 9 inches below the surface of 
the ground, and the end stone had been displaced by the wedges used 
by the workmen. Mr. Pople of Newhouse, who is the lessor of the 
quarry, communicated with the President of this Society, and on Satur¬ 
day afternoon (6th) the President, with Col. Campbell and Mr. Rodger, 
our Curator, went out to the quarry and thoroughly examined the 
find. The Cist itself rested on the surface of the rock, its sides were 
formed of four slabs of stone, the end slabs being roughly tooled to 
fit the side stones more closely: the top slab was much larger than 
the body of the Cist and projected 18 inches on the south side. The 
